OTIS CURRY MILLER

It’s the seventh-grade, spring break. Home from school, your friends are busy, and you are stuck in your room watching YouTube. You click on the rst video in the queue. It’s a solo guitar cover of your favorite song and you get so inspired by the musician in the video who seems so enthusiastic that you decide to nally touch that dusty instrument you had laying around from when you were 8. Otis curry miller loves the guitar. “Me and my father bonded over it. We would both consider ourselves creatives and this was just something new we could do together” Curry said. He’s been playing for the past 5 years in and out of bands nally settling in “Don’t Elaborate” the band that he and his friends created. To share their sound with the rest of the world, they plan on releasing music soon in the next coming months.

“I like it because it is unique like it is di erent for everyone who tries it. I love the creative process of writing songs and performing them especially when we our doing our gigs,” Curry said. “Don’t listen to what everybody has to say. Play the instrument that you like the most and try to make a new sound with it,” Curry said. In Otis’s case, his choice of instrument is the Gibson SG, perfect for the alternative music he likes to play. He likes a lot of indie rock and shoe gaze. He’s been inspired by his favorite bands like Pavement, the Smashing Pumpkins, and Velvet Underground. He plans to continue his love for music and his guitar in the future by going to college and getting a music industry degree. He wants to go to Loyola in New Orleans and the degree he’s following is in music production and recording.